单词
postulate
读音
ˈpɑːstʃəleɪt; ˈpɑːstʃələt
美式
英式
词根
"Postulate"源自拉丁语 "postulare"，意思是"request"。此外，该词根并没有衍生出太多的其它英文词汇。
释义
vt. 假定；要求；视…为理所当然 n. 基本条件；假定 [ 复数 postulates 第三人称单数 postulates 现在分词 postulating 过去式 postulated 过去分词 postulated ]
例句
The universe encompasses all of space and time we know, so it is beyond the realm of the Big Bang model to postulate what the universe beyond our horizon is.
宇宙包含我们所知的所有空间和时间，所以要求用大爆炸模型解释我们视界之外的宇宙超出了这个模型的限定范围。
Therefore some scientists postulate that the Earth's earliest atmosphere, unlike that of today, was dominated by hydrogen, methane, and ammonia.
因此，一些科学家推断，地球早期的大气与现在的不一样，主要由氢、甲烷和氨构成。
Let's postulate that she is a cook.
我们假定她是一位厨师。
The universe encompasses all of space and time we know, so it is beyond the realm of the Big Bang model to postulate what the universe beyond our horizon is.
宇宙包含我们所知的所有空间和时间，所以要求用大爆炸模型解释我们视界之外的宇宙超出了这个模型的限定范围。
Therefore some scientists postulate that the Earth's earliest atmosphere, unlike that of today, was dominated by hydrogen, methane, and ammonia.
因此，一些科学家推断，地球早期的大气与现在的不一样，主要由氢、甲烷和氨构成。
Let's postulate that she is a cook.
我们假定她是一位厨师。
强化记忆
帮助记忆的方式可以是将"Postulate"与 "Post"和 "late" 关联起来，就像是在一个项目 "Post(后)"了或者 "late(晚)" 了，我们需要做出一些 "postulate(假设)" 以便我们可以继续。"Postulate"这个词很早就在晚期拉丁语中出现，主要用在逻辑和科学的语境中，表示一个基本的、无需证明的事情。在现代英语中，这个词在科学和哲学等领域被广泛使用。
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of the existence of these different geometrieswhen he wrote his postulate.We may never know,
and not the arid southwest.The authors of this paper postulatethat this could be due to using salt to deice roads.
space and time and mass.They postulate fundamental laws governing them,like the laws of gravity or of quantum mechanics.
In the process, they began looking at what would happen logicallyif the fifth postulate were actually not true.Some of the greatest minds in the history of mathematics ask this question,
János Bolyai, Carl Gauss, and Nikolai Lobachevsky.They all experimented with negating the parallel postulate,only to discover that this gave rise to entire alternative geometries.
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